The impact of resident duty hour reform on hospital readmission rates among medicare beneficiaries

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-411

  Press, Matthew J ^b   Silber, Jeffrey H ^c,d,e   Rosen, Amy K ^a,f   Romano, Patrick S ^g   Itani, Kamal M F ^a,f,h   Zhu, Jingsan ^c   Wang, Yanli ^e   Even Shoshan, Orit ^c,e   Halenar, Michael J ^a,c   Volpp, Kevin G ^a,c,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

education, medical, graduate; hospital; readmission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RESIDENT; RESIDENT DUTY HOUR REFORM; STROKE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 79953721447     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-010-1539-y     Document Type: Article

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